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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Chall's Stage 1
Comprehension
Adolf Kusmaul
2. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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3. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
IEP
Universal Screening
Norm-Referenced Test
4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Social language
Standard deviation
Standardized test
Achievement test
5. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
GORT
Morphology
Base Word
Criterion-Referenced Test
6. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
RTI
Phonemic Awareness
Standard score
Accommodation
7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Multi-Sensory Approach
IEP
Standardized test
Three Layers of Language
8. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Accommodation
The Norman Conquest
Academic Achievement Tests
Digraph
9. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Tilde
Frank Smith
Pre-English
10. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Visual Processing
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Syllable
Suffix
11. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
RTI
Pre-English
Visual Learners
Phonics
12. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Mathew Effect
Trigraph
13. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Receptive language
Accuracy
Impulsivity
Anna Gillingham
14. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Syllable Instruction
Phonics
CTOPP
MSL
15. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Frank Smith
Diagnostic tests
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Samuel T. Orton
16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Towre
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
V-e
Anna Gillingham
17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Universal Screening
Progress Monitoring
IEP
18. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Great Vowel Shift
Universal Screening
Suffix
19. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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20. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Digraph
Ability
Keith Stanovich
Breve
21. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Multi-Sensory Approach
Funding
22. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Stanine Scores
Multi-Sensory Approach
Standard score
Age equivalent
23. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Anna Gillingham
Syntax
The Norman Conquest
IEP
24. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Phonics
Diphthong
Funding
25. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
ALTA
Base Word
Direct Instruction
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
26. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Diagnostic Teaching
RTI
Oral Language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
27. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Texas Education Code 28.06
Impulsivity
ESL
28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Social language
Whole Language
29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Dyslexia
Funding
Frank Smith
Modern English
30. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Semantics
Grade equivalents
Latin layer of language
Diagnostic tests
31. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Diagnostic tests
Standard score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
IDEA
32. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
James Hinshelwood
Standard Scores
Progress Monitoring
Attention
33. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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34. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
ADHD
Joe Torgesen
Vr
35. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Breve
Attention
Progress Monitoring
36. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Modern English
Syntax
Chall's Stage 4
37. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Syllable Instruction
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
MSL
38. Wide Range Achievement Test
Morphology
WRAT
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
SBOE
39. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
Reading Comprehension Support
Visual Learners
Vowel Digraph
40. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Cognition
Criterion-Referenced Test
James Hinshelwood
Suffix
41. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Three Layers of Language
Texas Education Code 28.06
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonemic Awareness
42. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Percentile/ percentile rank
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Academic Achievement Tests
43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Old English
VC
Receptive language
44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
VC
Consonant Digraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Expressive language
45. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Sound Symbol Association
Joe Torgesen
Impulsivity
Simultaneous teaching
46. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Diagnostic Teaching
Kinesthetic
WRAT
Matthew Effect
47. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Accent
Rate
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Towre
48. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Chall's Stage 0
Percentile/ percentile rank
Samuel T. Orton
Norm-Referenced Test
49. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Derived Score
Norm-Referenced Test
Grapheme
Mastery level
50. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Expressive language
Joe Torgesen
Dyslexia
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